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Mr. King said he would "absolutely not" apologize and again blasted the Kentucky Republican for delaying Senate progress on reauthorizing the Patriot Act, forcing the shutdown of the National Security Agency's controversial phone-snooping program and using it to raise money for his campaign.

"The fact is that 99 percent of the Senate wanted the debate to go forward and Rand Paul actually wanted to shut down the NSA for several days, serving no purpose other than for him to raise money for his presidential campaign That went beyond the limits of intelligent debate, of rational debate and to me it violated his position as a senator," said Mr. King, a New York Republican who has flirted with a presidential run this year.